Hawkins: The Second Amendment Does Not Create a Right to Keep and Bear Arms
The Second Amendment does not create a right to keep and bear arms, rather, it protects a pre-existing, God-given right to do so.
The Second Amendment does not create a right to keep and bear arms, rather, it protects a pre-existing, God-given right to do so.
The right to keep and bear arms is not something we as Americans possess because of government benevolence, but something with which our Creator endowed us.
On Sunday Elon Musk countered Kamala Harris’s ongoing gun control push with an X post which framed “the right to bear arms” as the means of protecting all other rights.
Breitbart Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins delivered a speech Saturday to attendees at a Young America’s Foundation’s conference.
Following President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday, left-wing presidential historian Michael Beschloss likened the president’s “bravery” to that of legendary U.S. Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), denounced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as “fundamental in enshrining slavery.”
Grammy-winning pop star and Joe Biden-Kamala Harris surrogate Lizzo played a 200-year-old crystal flute lent to her by The Library of Congress, before proclaiming, “Bitch, I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s.”
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision is both smaller than it looks and bigger than it looks. But its underlying solution to the abortion debate is huge.
Former Vice President Mike Pence told an audience at the University of Iowa on Monday evening that “James Madison” had told him not to reject the results of the Electoral College vote when they were presented to Congress on January 6 this year.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-21) commended the importance of the Second Amendment on Tuesday and supported the integral role an armed citizenry plays is repelling tyranny.
As thousands of Cubans protest against the island’s communist regime, stringent gun control laws from Havana negatively impact their efforts.
During Thursday’s comments from the Rose Garden President Joe Biden claimed the Second Amendment has had limits “from the very beginning.”
Actor Kevin Sorbo is stressing that Americans need to understand that the irony of “men with guns” taking Americans’ guns justifies the existence of the Second Amendment.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) may be the next target of the “Cancel Culture” crowd as an advisory group seeks to rename a San Francisco school bearing her name.
Students at Michigan State University have launched a campaign to prevent the renaming of the university’s James Madison College, which offers courses on public affairs and international relations. Over 500 students have signed a petition that calls on the university to suspend efforts to rename the college.
“Where do you draw the line here?” McEnany asked during the White House press briefing, referring to HBO’s decision Tuesday to pull the film Gone with the Wind over historically racially insensitive content.
Fact check – CLAIM: The Framers, including George Mason, wanted a broad impeachment power. VERDICT: FALSE. The Framers rejected Mason’s idea.
We are seeing the right of each state to make its own decisions—for better or for worse, as the case might be—as enshrined in our founding document, the U.S. Constitution.
Columnist and George Mason economics Professor Walter E. Williams is warning Virginians about Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) gun registry plan.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings “a global Watergate” during the Thursday night Democrat debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
As Alexis de Tocqueville noted, Thomas Jefferson warned James Madison: “The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread and will be for many years.”
As the impeachment star chamber of Adam Schiff continues in its secretive, one-sided manner, it’s worth pausing to consider what our country’s Founding Fathers would think of this spectacle.
It is increasingly popular to question America’s greatness and status as a “Shining City on a Hill,” but the Founding Fathers showed that patriotism is not a bad thing, and U.S. freedom should never be taken for granted.
On Tuesday, Nevada became the 15th state, along with the District of Columbia, to pass a measure that would grant its electoral college votes to the candidate that won the nationwide popular vote.
The best that could be said of Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-American Affairs Committee, is that they actually found some communists.
While covering Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s efforts to hold power, MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders noted Maduro has the advantage of guns against an unarmed populace.
“Weapons of war” were commonly owned civilian weapons when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791.
Judge Andrew Napolitano says the Second Amendment protects gun rights so Americans can use those very guns to defend themselves from criminals and their own government.
Venezuelans from all walks of life lament their nation’s six-year-old gun ban and say the prohibition against being armed allows their government to dominate them.
Cato Institute foreign policy scholar Doug Bandow said on Wednesday that America has spent more than $5.9 trillion on the war on terror and suggested that America’s foreign policy is “the ultimate big government program.”
It seems that all we see and read about these days are accusations, investigations, confrontations—and, as Brett Kavanaugh put it, “character assassinations.”
Parkland shooting survivor Kyle Kashuv schooled classmate Cameron Kasky on the Second Amendment’s threat to tyranny.
Whereas in the United States, a background check is sufficient to purchase a firearm, in Italy several more steps are required, boasts an article Saturday in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
When the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 the phrase, “well regulated militia,” underlined the importance of the words, “shall not be infringed.”
As we watch freedom-starved Iranians stand against an extremist regime bent on retaining power it is a safe bet that Iran’s rank and file would benefit from a Second Amendment.
A study by two Baylor University sociologists claims that poor white men are most likely to cling to guns, viewing them as a means of “empowerment.”
An October 5 New York Times op-ed by Bret Stephens calls for an all-out repeal of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
President Donald Trump’s proclamation that Sunday, September 3, shall be a National Day of Prayer for the victims of Hurricane Harvey follows a tradition first established by George Washington and continued by presidents including Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, as well as being ratified by Congress.
During a re-broadcast interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose, Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he believes the Second Amendment is a collective right rather than a “right for an individual to keep a gun next to his bed.”
National reciprocity for concealed carry is really about one thing: bearing the arms we keep.